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Cost management and control in government : fighting the cost war through leadership driven management / Dale R. Geiger

Author
Geiger, Dale R.
Published
New York, N.Y. : Business Expert Press, 2011.
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Description
x, 208 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

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Contents
Foreword: Blending people, process, and tools to win the cost war -- Introduction: Cost management and control in government -- Opportunities for leadership driven management --Stage I cost use: making cost informed decisions. Developing aggressive, knowledgeable management -- ACEs: building a talented, smart support staff of analytic cost experts -- Army Central Command examples of cost benefit analysis -- Stage II cost use: creating cost managed organizations. Constructing interactive, learning oriented processes -- Evolving good cost information -- Organization based operational control processes -- Fort Huachuca U.S. Army Garrison: case study -- Refocusing support functions through role based control processes -- NRaD (Now SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific): case study -- Output based management control -- Bureau of Engraving and Printing -- Stage III cost use: creating cost managed enterprises. Implementation issues -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Index.
Summary
"Government organizations spend enormous amounts of money. They employ a large percentage of the work force. They have an undeniably huge impact on the national economy and wealth. Yet they are, for the most part, unmanaged. What passes for management is a combination of oversight and audit. Oversight is primarily reactive: offering negative feedback for failures and demanding additional rules and regulations to prevent reoccurrences. Audits look for "bright line" discrepancies and clear violations to those rules and regulations. Government operations are often criticized for "waste and mismanagement."Yet the current situation, unfortunately, can best be described as one of "un-management" rather than "mis-management." Government can run better. This book is to look at how government can move from "rule driven" to "leadership driven" management. Specifically, documents and discusses specific examples of successful cost informed decision making and cost management and control in government. It delineates the requirements of such success and explore the special needs of transforming the management culture of government from its well embedded past practices to a new paradigm of leadership driven management."--Publisher's website.
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9781606492178
1606492179
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-198) and index.
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